I'll bite once again... On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 19:57, Michael Toomim wrote: > > Take a Microsoft Windows XP or Mac OS X machine out of the box and use > it and it operates in a similar manner to LindowsOS â the first person > to touch it can do whatever they want. If we make Linux harder to use > then other operating systems, users will not embrace it. Users just want > to get their work done, they don't want to be computer experts and they > shouldn't have to be. Of course, if they want to add a default password > or setup multiple accounts and restrict access to their own machine, > they can of course do it on all of these operating systems, including > LindowsOS, even though none default that way.
That's simply not true for Mac OS X - the root account is disabled by default and sudo is used for administrative tasks. That's the way to go IMHO, not logging in as root. -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
